preview

Hans Thomas A Person's Constant Search For Identity

Decent Essays

The novel carries several themes including; Person’s constant search for his or her identity. The narrator - Hans Thomas - started his narration with some advice on how to find your identity. He said “My advice to those who are going to find themselves is – stay exactly where you are. Otherwise you are in great danger of losing yourself forever.” This shows that it was not only his mother who had left in the search of finding herself. Hans, who came to feel as though his entire life was missing a piece because of feeling alone and the absence of his mother began trying to answer his philosophical questions. His father, who was a illegitimate son, was also trying to answer his own questions, he himself searching for his long lost father. By

Get Access